Talk:List of drugs

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I am in the process of creating a list of drugs and their various names. The list will be alphabetical and will use the following format (subject to change if better suggestions are put forward).

All items in the list will follow the general format:

  • Name of drug (who calls it that) [country]. Redirects to name of drug.

Contents

[edit] Name of drug

  • Will be capitalized if it is a trade name (brand name) or uncapitalized if it is a generic name.
  • Two trade names that are nearly identical (eg Adalat PA and Adalat XL) need not have seperate entries unless there is a particular reason for doing so.
  • Names will be listed alphabetically and broken into an appropriate number of pages (with 200-500??? items per page)

[edit] who calls it that

  • For generic names, this is the agency which has designated that name. [eg (INN), (BAN), or (USAN)]
  • for brand names, this is the company which produces that brand.
  • If there is more than one agency, then use a comma separated list in the brackets [eg (INN, BAN)]

[edit] country

  • Only mention the country if that trade name is only available in one or two countries.
  • Use the two letter country code with a wikilink to the country (eg [CA])
  • Use comma separated list for multiple countries (eg [CA, US]
  • Use amp codes to put in the square brackets so they don't get confused with the wiki markup. For example (see source of page):
*Prandase (Bayer AG) [Ca]. Redirects to acarbose.

[edit] Redirects to

  • If the wikilink of that drug name redirects to another drug name (eg trade name to generic) then mention it on the list.
  • If a trade name should redirect to a generic name of a drug page that hasn't been created yet, include the redirect mention in the list but don't create a page that redirects to a non-existant page.

[edit] Example entries

(The above info might not be accurate, I just whipped it up as an example.)

  • I have entered the whole list of drugs currently used in U.S. from the recommended source.--rich_richie 03:29, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Drugs? Or licensed medicines?

Seems clear to me that the list is of drugs licensed for use as medicines but not of all substances that may be classified as drugs (which does not mean that a drug not listed is therefore illegal or prohibited). I am not clear as to what extent it includes drugs licensed outside but not inside the US. The absence of Sativex suggests that it includes only drugs licensed as medicines in the US. Laurel Bush 16:17, 2 March 2006 (UTC).

One can add or remove the medications as per his wish this my contribution what made to wikipedia. Now it depends on the person what he makes his contribution to wikipedia

--rich_richie 11:23, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redirects

Not sure about the use of Redirects to ... It will become inaccurate or redundant if a page is moved, and updating in the list could lag a long way behind the move. Laurel Bush 10:52, 10 March 2006 (UTC).

A valid point. The issues I was addressing when I came up with "redirects to" (a label I wasn't entirely happy with) were a) It would be good to have the Methylin link on the list of drugs actually point to Methylin and not be piped to Methylphenidate so that wikiusers can see that the redirect exists (and if it's ever changed from a redirect then the users will be taken to the right page). b) It it would be good to have a note on the list that drug A is the same as drug B, this would allow the pages to provide information instead of having users follow the link to find out what Methylin is. And finally c) would provide a place to store the info that drug A is the same as drug B even if we don't have pages on either. So perhaps instead of "Redirects to..." we could have "See:" or "Also known as:". But I can't be bothered to go through all the pages to change things now. Matt 19:34, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

I would prefer Also known as .... But yes, it might take some time and trouble for any one person to get them all changed. Laurel Bush 10:20, 13 March 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Country codes

Wondering were the two letter country codes come from. (Thinking there should be a note about that on the article's front page.) Laurel Bush 12:50, 13 March 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Talk pages

I am thinking it would be a good idea to have all other talk pages redirecting to this one. A lot to do though. Laurel Bush 17:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Good idea. Done. Another tast that could be done is renaming some of the pages... Initially when the list was created, the pages were continuous, (e.g. it went from aa-ag, ah-am, an-as, and as-az). An editor who did some major changes to these pages (intending to be helpful, I'm sure), changed the page names restricting them to actuall content (eg, if we had no drugs starting with ah then the pages would go from aa-ag, ai-am, etc...). The problem with this, is when someone want's to add a drug who's name doesn't fit into this scheme, it's not clear where to put things. Also, as drugs are added, then the pages have to be renamed. So to get to the point, if the pages could be renamed so that they're continuous again. that would be great. Then the templates have to be updated (and see below), etc....Matt 01:35, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes. I had noticed the gaps you refer to. Laurel Bush 10:19, 18 March 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Cannabis

I have just listed cannabis linking to Cannabis, not Cannabis (drug), because, eg, the UK's Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 treats the plant itself as a drug. Laurel Bush 11:12, 10 March 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Some templates need to be fixed

I noticed some problems around {list of drugs s}. but iirc the person who made these templates made them into multilevel templates and so they're hard to edit. Maybe it would be good to go through them all and just subst them so they're easier to edit in the future. (subst them down to one level, I meant, not into the articles). Matt 01:25, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sulla

Sulla: wondering whether the capital initial is approriate, and assuming the (plant) disambiguation copies usage of the protolink in some other context, some other article. Laurel Bush 11:39, 18 March 2006 (UTC).

Is disambiguated because it is also a personal name. Laurel Bush 12:11, 18 March 2006 (UTC).

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